Barbara Boxer

Barbara Boxer (11 November 1940-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-CA 6) from 3 January 1983 to 3 January 1993 (succeeding Phillip Burton and preceding Lynn Woolsey) and a US Senator from 3 January 1993 to 3 January 2017 (succeeding Alan Cranston and preceding Kamala Harris).

Biography
Barbara Levy was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York in 1940, and she worked as a stockbroker before moving to Greenbrae, Marin County, California with her husband. She worked as a journalist for the Pacific Sun during the 1970s and served in the Marin County Board of Supervisors from 1976 to 1982, in the US House of Representatives from 1983 to 1993, and in the US Senate from 1993 to 2017. Boxer and Dianne Feinstein were the first female pair of US Senators representing the same state at the same time, and Boxer retired in 2016.